On a running Linux box, you should be able to plug the USB
stick into a USB port, and mount the squashfs filesytem the
same way that you can mount an ISO image.
Once you have mounted the squashfs image, copy what you want
to another directory on the running machine.
Just Google for 'squashfs mount'
HTH
Keith Roberts
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, James Heather wrote:
To: livecd(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
From: James Heather <j.heather(a)surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] mounting a persistent overlay
Can anyone tell me how to mount the squashfs / persistent overlay on a
live USB stick, without booting it up?
Context: I gave someone a live USB stick with something
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to log some diagnostics when he booted it up on a
machine in China. Now I want to get the logs off the USB stick, but I am
just realising in my amateurish way that when I boot it up I will
overwrite the logs... Such is the problem with operating under time
pressure...
James